Nobody decided to tell me to stop thinking about SGA crossovers. So I ended up spending half the afternoon cataloging our hardcover SF collection. And I had an *epiphany* about last night's SGA episode! (pun not actually intended, but this post deserves it anyway.)

I've always been bugged by the way Sheppard reminds me of somebody. And I *finally* figured out who it is.

John Sheppard is actually .... Jonathan Livingston Seagull!

Oh yes. With the flying obsession, and the surfing, and the speshul Ascension powers, and how he's all 'been there, done that, come back to teach the kids' and the way he *is* with the Lorne and Ford and all of them, all mentor-y without being an actual authority figure at all, the totally *transcending* his geekiness, and the way he's so utterly competent, the excellent but reluctant leadership, the *utterly* foolhardy stunts that by some miracle don't get anyone killed, even him ...

Oh yes. Forget penguins. Colonel Sheppard is the only son of the Great Gull.

Lorne is Fletcher Lynd.

(You realize I'm going to keep posting this stuff until somebody tells me to stop, right? I have an *endless* supply of it.)